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She's a smart girl and, what's more, she's a good girl, and she's all the child we've got. Of course we've realized that she was growin' up and that Oh, good mornin', Alphy. Fine weather, ain't it. Lookin' for somethin', was you?" He hurried out into the store to sell Mrs. Theophilus Berry, known locally as "Alphy Ann," a box of writing paper and a penholder.
He sat, with his elbows on the table, nibbling the end of a wooden penholder, and staring at the opposite wall. His face looked pale and haggard in the light of the gas, and the eyes, fixed in that vacant stare, had a feverish brightness. Mr.
"Where shall I sign my name?" Veronica Serra's thin, dark fingers rolled the old silver penholder nervously as she sat at one end of the long library table, looking up at the short, stout man who stood beside her. "Here, if you please, Excellency," answered Lamberto Squarci, with an affable smile.
And if Miss Vancourt should chance to resemble in the least her ancestress, Mary Elia Adelgisa de Vaignecourt, they were wholly unsuitable. A creditor might write 'Dear Madam' to a customer in application for an outstanding bill, but to Mary Elia Adelgisa one would surely begin, Ah! now how would one begin? He paused, biting the end of his penholder.
The most serious thing I can accuse you of is holding the earnings of the Wegg and Thompson stock and big earnings they are, too for your own benefit, and defrauding the heirs of your associates of their money." West carefully balanced a penholder across his fingers, and eyed it with close attention. "You are a queer man, Mr. Merrick," he said, quietly.
He picked up a penholder and played with it for several moments. "Young man," he asked at last, "who is Mr. "That, in the present stage of our negotiations," Norgate answered coolly, "I am not permitted to tell you." "May I guess as to his nationality?" Mr. Bullen enquired. "I cannot prevent your doing that." "The speculation is an interesting one," Mr.
Her teeth indented the nib of her penholder. "Was ever a woman in such a predicament before? So illusionary and yet so ridiculously actual! Shall I send Hedworth away and sit down with this phantom through life? I understand that some women get their happiness out of just that sort of thing. Then when I forget Hedworth would I forget him? Is passion needed to set the soul free?
We know so much already that presumably it will be of little use to you to have recourse to lies." Amelungen played with his penholder, but his hands trembled visibly, and words failed him. His face had turned ashy pale, and Heideck could not help feeling sorry for him. "I regret that my duty obliges me to proceed against you," he continued. "I can easily understand your motives.
These being produced, the barrister curiously examined the wooden penholder and steel pen. "Why, Master Droop," he said, "from what unknown bird have you plucked forth this feather?" "Feather!" Droop exclaimed. "What feather?" "Why this?" Bacon held up the pen and holder. "That ain't a feather. It's a pen-holder an' a steel pen, man. Say!" he exclaimed, leaning forward suddenly.
"I wish I could help you, sergeant," said Dick, at last. "So do I, my lad; but you can't." "Have you tried the doctor?" "Yes yes," said Brumpton, dolefully. "What did he advise?" "Nothing! Laughed at me." Dick sat, tapping the table with his penholder. "I know how it will be," continued the sergeant.
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